Posts Tagged Navteq

Attending Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Group monthly meetup is always very inspiring. Dedicated to covering broad range of subjects, speakers range from large corporations (Navteq) to small startups (Loopt) to socially oriented technologists. The organizer, Kathryn Burton, is a tireless promoter and coordinator who has arranged with Google to host the meetings for the year. I enjoy the format where everyone attending introduces oneself, so all attendees can approach anyone they find interesting and relevant to their interests. The main presentation of this edition included Navteq developer API and WalkScore. The most exiting was the later. Josh Livni from Umbrella Consulting presented WalkScore - a web mapping tool for showcasing walkability of a many cities. His presentation outlined how they combined census data, topographic maps and crowd sourced input to create a walkability score of any given spot of the cities they represent. The results are aggregated and output as heat maps. It was another inspiring and informative meetup session and did I mention that it was hosted generously by Googlein at their campus.